About Bill Wagner
His technical time is spent between curly braces, primarily with C#. He’s the author of the best selling “Effective C#”, now in its second edition, and “More Effective C#”. His articles have appeared in MSDN Magazine, the C# Developer Center, Visual C++ Developer’s Journal, Visual Studio Magazine, ASP.NET Pro, .NET Developer’s Journal and more. He’s written hundreds of technical articles for software developers. He actively blogs about technical and business topics at http://www.srtsolutions.com/
In addition to his business and technical accomplishments, Bill is an active community participant. He volunteers as a math tutor for the Manchester, Mich. schools, where he works to inspire high schoolers to consider a technical career.
He received his B.S. in Computer Science from the College of Engineering at the University of Illinois at Urbana Champaign.
Humanitarian Toolbox: Day 2
Awesome. There’s no other word. This was positively awesome.
On the 10th, we built on the foundation we created on Tuesday. We spent the entire
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Humanitarian Toolbox Hack a thon, Day 1
I’m really happy with the response we got from the first night of the Humanitarian Toolbox hackathon at DevIntersections. We’re creating innovations that have a
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Write Some Code, Change the World
I’ve always found that developers are very interested in contributing their skills and their time to help others.
I’m excited to be part of a
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Async, Exceptions and Library Design
Hat tip to Stephen Toub for discussing this with me and helping to describe the solution.
At my CodeMash precompiler, I mentioned how the C#
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MVP Summit Recap
Let me start by saying that much of the content at the Microsoft MVP Summit is covered by the NDA MVPs sign with Microsoft in
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2013 Investments: Continuous Client Experience
In this post, I’ll drill a bit into the final of the 3 areas SRT is investing in for 2013: Continuous Client Experience.
Users are
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2013 Investments: Single Page Applications
As I wrote last week, Single Page Web Applications are another area where we’re investing in 2013. The term "Single Page Web Application" is probably
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Our view on the mobile market
Last time I gave an overview of the areas where we’re making significant investments in 2013. In these posts, I’ll go into some detail on
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SRT Technology Investments for 2013
At SRT, we continuously examine the overall technology landscape and make decisions on where to invest more time, what should stay the same, and what
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Assert.ThrowsException for async lambdas
UPDATE: Jake Ginnivan pointed out an inefficiency in my code below. I was awaiting the async method under test twice.
As I mentioned a
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